Yahtzee4U
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Interesting thread. I have to agree first off that shot placement and being able to hit your target with multiple shot's is the most important aspect of all, but I am a little surprised that folks are ragging on the 357 mag a bit.
I think we all forget that whether your using a handgun or a rifle, the principle is the same. Velocity is extremely important, that's why a 75-90 Gr. .243 will quite easily take down a deer or black bear. Many of us have seen what a small, light bullet does to the insides of a large animal, it looks like a blender has gone through there, and it does that because of a VIOLENT bullet expansion and fragmentation.
I KNOW what a high velocity round does to the insides of a 200 pound deer (comparable to a man?) whether the bullet is perfectly mushroomed or fragmented, so I guess my point is that I simply use that as a reference. I want a hollow point that travels as fast as whatever gun I am using can shoot it. I use an sp101 2.25 inch, and I find that Corbon 110 Gr. bullets (125 is fine too) are extremely easy to shoot and control, but I do realize that the SP is a heavier carry gun. The corbon 110 Gr. chrono's out of my SP101 at an avg. of 1345fps.
The .357 was originally developed to compete with the 38 super as a round that could penetrate the early vests and cars, it wasn't developed to kill bears.
Sorry to go off on a tangent! Hit your target with something!
I think we all forget that whether your using a handgun or a rifle, the principle is the same. Velocity is extremely important, that's why a 75-90 Gr. .243 will quite easily take down a deer or black bear. Many of us have seen what a small, light bullet does to the insides of a large animal, it looks like a blender has gone through there, and it does that because of a VIOLENT bullet expansion and fragmentation.
I KNOW what a high velocity round does to the insides of a 200 pound deer (comparable to a man?) whether the bullet is perfectly mushroomed or fragmented, so I guess my point is that I simply use that as a reference. I want a hollow point that travels as fast as whatever gun I am using can shoot it. I use an sp101 2.25 inch, and I find that Corbon 110 Gr. bullets (125 is fine too) are extremely easy to shoot and control, but I do realize that the SP is a heavier carry gun. The corbon 110 Gr. chrono's out of my SP101 at an avg. of 1345fps.
The .357 was originally developed to compete with the 38 super as a round that could penetrate the early vests and cars, it wasn't developed to kill bears.
Sorry to go off on a tangent! Hit your target with something!
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said it was developed FOR shooting bears. Someplace there are photos of Col Douglas Wesson, with a grizzly or polar bear and an African Lion, all shot with Nframes 357s. I have seen them, it was part of the advertising for the guns.
